There are quite a premium WordPress themes out there these days, but there are still quite a few niches out there where there really isn’t a premium theme to fill that need.

Brian has taken a step towards filling one of these niches with the release of his new Real Estate Revolution theme, which appears to be his most requested theme design.  Here are the features Brian lists for this new theme:

• Featured listing section, about me section and recent blog posts on the homepage
• Dropdown navigation menu
• Short contact form in the sidebar
• Page template for real estate listings

And here are the screenshots:

Real Estate Homepage

Real Estate Page Template

This theme follows the same pricing as his previous Revolution themes.   You can get the single-use package for $79.95 or the multiple-use package for $199.95.  Check out Revolution Real Estate.

Here at Hack WordPress, we pride ourselves on bringing you all sorts of WordPress hacks, theme and plugin reviews, and we also try to create some good WordPress discussions whenever possible.

One thing I get asked a lot is why I link out to other people so often. The answer is fairly simple. There are a lot of people that are as passionate about WordPress as I am, and these people do great work. Some are other “WordPress niche” blogs, while most are just bloggers who occasionally write about WordPress on their blogs. Either way, I don’t look at them as competitors, but rather as other WordPress enthusiasts and I try to give their posts some additional exposure.

One thing I’ve been planning to do is to create a resources page for this site which collects other great WordPress resources. For now, the list will be limited to WordPress niche blogs and web designers that use (and write) about WordPress, but it may expand in the future if I can incorporate other blogs that cover WordPress and still keep the page both useful and manageable.

Here is where I’m hoping you can help me out. I’ve got about 15 blogs in my feed reader and I know there are a lot more than that. If you run a WordPress blog, you are a WordPress designer with a personal blog and write about WordPress, or you are a reader and have a few favorite WordPress blogs you enjoy reading, can you drop me some links in the comments below? That way I can put together a list for my WordPress resources page.

I’m going to try to get the blogroll put together this weekend (hopefully with feeds as well) and will also do a follow up post to give these blogs some more exposure.

Update: You can now check out our WordPress Resources page.

By default, WordPress displays your php files by whatever the file name is. That means if you name your file wordpress.php, that is how it will show in your WordPress editor. When working with page templates, or if you just want to keep your files a little more organized, you’ll probably want to give your templates names.

Here is all you need to do. Paste the following code at the top of the file:

<?php
/*
Template Name: WordPress PHP
*/
?>

Now change WordPress PHP to be the name you want to use. Easy enough, right?  Tomorrow I’ll be posting a little more about page templates!

I figured the title of this post would probably catch everyone’s attention!  

Generally speaking, I am not one of those people that gets anal about spelling.   I always make a conscious effort to spell things correctly and use words in the proper context, but it usually doesn’t bother me when I’m reading someone else’s work and things are misspelled (wrong “there”, etc.).  I’m sure some of my published works even have misspellings from time to time.   For whatever reason, however, I have noticed that a lot of people don’t seem to know how to properly spell WordPress. 

Do you know how to spell WordPress?  For those that never really gave it any thought, WordPress is spelled with a capital “P” in the middle.   Now, it doesn’t really bother me so much when bloggers misspell WordPress on their blogs, but with the recent explosion of WordPress blogs, it does bother me a little that these WordPress bloggers don’t even know how to properly spell the product that their blog is focused on.

When you write about WordPress on one of your blogs, are you spelling WordPress correctly?

With the surge in the popularity of poker around the globe, combined with the amount of advertising revenue that can be generated with poker sites, it was only a matter of time before the world of Poker turned to blogging. 

Now that there is some demand for poker blogs, there is also a demand for poker themes.  I’ve noticed a few popping up lately, ranging from the ultra popular premium theme Deep Stack, to the new free theme named iPoker. 

Here is a screenshot of iPoker:

The theme includes widget support and AJAX enhanced live search.  You can view the demo here.  

In addition to getting used to the new look and feel of the WordPress dashboard in WordPress 2.5, the second major adjustment you’ll probably have to make is getting used to the WordPress write panel (for those that write their posts within the dashboard).

I’ve probably written over 100 posts since upgrading to WordPress 2.5 across my blogs and I can honestly say I’m still not used to it.  I usually adapt very quickly to change, but I’ve already noticed that I often forget to assign the category to my posts because the category panel is out of sight.  I end up having to edit the post after being published to correct these types of things.  I also do not like the way recommended tags now work in this addition, and I want to be able to save and continue editing. 

Other than that, this edition is a huge improvement over the old write panel and makes software like Windows Live Writer less attractive.    How do you like the new WordPress write panel?

Also, if you haven’t made the switch yet, you may want to check out this post written by a guest blogger over at Michael Martine’s blog named Knowing Your Way Around the WordPress Write Panel.   This post was designed to introduce you to everything the new WordPress write panel has to offer, and compares it to where everything was in WordPress 2.3.3 and earlier.